Beyond the Podium: Dr. Luis Daniel Muñoz, (D) Candidate for Governor

<p>Dr. Luis Daniel Muñoz, who’s seeking the Democratic nomination for governor of Rhode Island, says he has three priorities if elected.</p><p>“I’m running with plans to create sustainable health care system, a more equitable education system, housing that’s low income and affordable ... so that people can have roofs over their heads,” Muñoz said in a “<a href="https://turnto10.com/news/beyond-the-podium" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beyond the Podium</a>” segment.</p><p>Muñoz said growing up in Central Falls gave him an understanding of what he called urban core struggles. He said he took that struggle and translated it into a career path by becoming a medical doctor and learning how the health care industry impacts the economy.</p><p>“Bringing that into the office of governor at a time when we’re still confronting this endemic is very important given that we have to build out infrastructure with community health, which I believe should be free,” Muñoz said.</p><p>“People should walk to free clinics like the ‘90s, but we dismantled that since,” Muñoz said. “I also think that when we focus on businesses -- not the big corporations -- we need to focus on the microbusinesses, right, what our local economies are built for, and ultimately, we can do that by putting ARPA dollars for these businesses.”</p><p>Muñoz said the political figures he admires -- Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy among them -- all share a common trait.</p><p>“People that were willing to sacrifice their lives for what they believed,” Muñoz said. “Those are the heroes that I always look up to.”</p><p>Muñoz said the best advice he ever received was “be still.”</p><p>“Sometimes we are so reactive to the issues that are happening around us that we fail to think carefully on how to create sustainable systems,” Muñoz said.</p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19